India, Nov. 14 -- Be it in sports, academics, music, literature or technology, children these days are achieving extraordinary feats across diverse fields at young ages. As we celebrate Children's Day today, a HT team spoke to a few young achievers who shared their journeys.

During a school trip last year, to a paralysis care centre in Gurugram, Pranet Khetan, 16, a student of Shiv Nadar School, Gurugram, witnessed firsthand how patients struggled to communicate because of slurred speech. That experience inspired him to develop an AI device called Paraspeaks, which is capable of translating slurred speech into clear speech in real time.

"I spent nearly a year and a half working at the centre to collect data, which became the foundation ...